Western Morning News (Saturday)
Inspired by the coastline of Cornwall
BRITISH Abstract artist Jerry Browning has produced a stunning new collection of work inspired by the estuaries, bays and headlands around the Camel River, Padstow Bay, the village of Rock and the surrounding Cornish coastline.
This is a glorious part of the South West and signifies a welcome return for Browning who spent many years painting in and around St Ives in the 1970s and 80s.
Taking advantage of the enforced quiet and solitude during lockdown, Browning was able to roam the area undisturbed, finding the perfect vantage points along the coast path and inland walks, where he could spend all day and every day, capturing the magnificent landscape spread out before him.
This new collection has a renewed freshness, a clarity, to the work on the canvas. The lines are pure, the brushstrokes clean, sharp and well defined. It is easy to imagine sitting with the artist and sharing his vision of majestic headlands, coppery fields giving way to the stark blue cliff edge, the ever-changing surface of the waters of sea and river.
Like Howard Hodgkins, Browning feels that each painting needs to speak for itself, that it is hard to express in words what he conveys on the canvas.
The colours evoke emotions which have a personal, elemental context, it’s all about how a painting makes you feel.
Browning has practiced his craft for years, constantly experimenting, retaining the subtleties between line and form, finding the essence of each work.
This new collection, Earth Lines, is breathtaking. Catch it at The Brownston Gallery, Modbury Opening Sunday, June 6, 2pm-5pm and running till June 26.
Contact gallery for information at www.brownstonart.com or call on 01548 831338.